Interviewer: Ah I've heard some people ah- have you ever gotten the itch? Speaker: The edge? Interviewer: The itch? Speaker: Oh the itch, ah probably. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: I probably have- yeah most definitely as a child. I don't sleep- I don't ah- I-don't-know why I said sleep- I don't- I don't swim in Lake-Nippissing, so well- no, I don't like how warm the water is (laughs). It- and I know it's just because it's shallow but it's like I just don't like the thought of like the sewage plant just being like just (makes sound) down there, not too far.

Ah, I really liked it. Other than Lake-Nippising kinda sucks because of the itch that it gets and the shadfly season, so…

It's got to be somewhat, because they ha-- were like- biologists of some sort were talking about somehow actually taking those snails out of this lake just to stop the itch but they realized that they had to leave them because it's part of the ecosystem or-whatever.

Mm. Oh gosh, the itch is just basically, if you- in Lake-Nippising specifically, if you play around in like the soil- n-- not the soil, the sand and the dirt and-everything um, these little organisms live in there and they'll bite you and they're these little bites that you get all over you and it's basically like getting um like chicken-pox or um, anything-like-that.

...so you just don't bother going swimming for like two weeks during shadfly-season and then the itch comes- you get like one week grace period and then the itch comes.

And of course the more you scratched it- the worse it got. So if you put the calamine lotion on it would take the itch away so you wouldn't scratch it. And leave it alone. But I- my- I don't even think my kids, my kids ever got it. I don't think Joe and Curtis ever got it.

Um maybe after I get back from New-York I'll have the itch to travel more but for right now just going to New-York. And I wo-- I paid for the trip by working over-time hours at the hospital so we've have a lot of computer switch-overs in the last couple of weeks and a lot of changes with the new hospital being built.

No, no I don't think so- no, but then on the other hand you- you-know you always manage to get the itch over here too, but that's- that- I mean that's curable, all you got to do is rub yourself down really well with a towel, which you can probably do with these fleas too. Ah but I know the M-N-R out there, they're taking um nets and they're dropping nets down and bringing them back up again to see how many of these little creatures that they can bring in.

And you always got the itch, 'cause- same things goes on now but nobody seemed to- we just kind-of ignored it but- back in those days.